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Henry Robson was a long-serving missionary to Tanganyika and Uganda. He and his wife, Ada, helped establish and develop the Adventist mission work in Africa, serving there for 32 years.
Trans-European Division United Kingdom Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
José Miranda Rocha was a pastor and teacher in Brazil.
Hermann August Rockel, pastor and missionary, was born on August 23, 1877 in the city of Woydehnen, Shatrovo, Russia, son of Ludwig Rockel and Wilhelmine Schulz.
Alfonso Panis Roda was president of Philippine Union College.
Peter Gustavus Rodgers, evangelist and pastor, was one of Adventism’s most effective spokespersons in America’s black urban communities during the first four decades of the twentieth century and a leading voice in the struggle for black equality within the church.
Pavel Rodionov was a Russian by birth and a mission pioneer in Manchuria and Mongolia. In 1949 he transferred to Australia as the first Seventh-day Adventist minister to nurture any of the many groups who had migrated from Europe to Australia after the Second World War. He established the Russian church in Sydney before his premature passing.
Luiz Caleb Rodrigues was a canvasser and pioneer in northeastern part of Brazil helping develop the Adventist Church in this part of the world.
Erwin Erhardt Roennfeldt was born on May 4, 1899, of Germanic ancestry in the rural hamlet of Greenock, SA. His parents were Erhardt Franz Wilhelm Roennfeldt and Antonia Florentine (Jaensch) Roennfeldt. Erwin’s five siblings were Vera Dorothea, Clarence, Oscar Benjamin, Irene, and Norma. Later generations anglicized their surname variously as Roennfelt, Roenfeldt or Roenfelt.
Clarence (Clarrie) Roennfeldt spent the majority of his life as a very active lay preacher and church worker in the West Australian Conference. However, as a young adult he was involved in mission service in Burma and then in colporteur ministry in South Australia.
Harvey Edson Rogers was the first statistical secretary of the General Conference and an author of manuals on typewriting and shorthand.
Viola Rogers was for many years involved in editorial work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australasia. She was the senior editor for the Australasian Record and The Missionary Leader for a period of eight years.
Luis Antonio Rojas Ayala was a pioneering pastor, public evangelist, and administrator in Argentina, Paraguay and Chile.
South American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Ruth Caroline Lucas was a renowned educator, teacher, and president of the Seventh-day Adventist Business Educator’s Association.
Dumitru Roman served as a Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Romania during the difficult years of repression.
Potenciano H. Romulo was an evangelist, educator, and leader from the Philippines.
Joseph Rono was an Adventist pastor, evangelist and the second president of Western Kenya in Field.
Mário Roque was a pastor, teacher, administrator, and educator from Brazil.
Sasa Rore, a Solomon Islander, was a pioneering leader in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. He was the district director on Guadalcanal Island during the bitter conflicts of World War II.
Nabor Oliveira da Rosa was an Adventist pastor. His family was among the first Adventist converts in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Aside from serving the Seventh-day Adventist Church for 27 years in different capacities, Clemencio S. Rosco translated into Cebuan the book entitled Patriarchs and Kings originally written in English by Ellen G. White.